[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: yay

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, October 02, 2020

Klingon word: yay
Part of speech: noun
Definition: victory, triumph
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   potlhbe'chugh yay qatlh pe''eghlu'? 
   If winning is not important, then why keep score? TKW

   noH ghoblu'DI' yay quv law' Hoch quv puS 
   In war there is nothing more honorable than victory. TKW

   yay 'oS bey.  'IQ pagh. 
   This yell is victorious in nature, rather than mournful... S31

   matlhHa'lu'chugh vaj Doghlu' 'e' yaymeH molor 
   So that one day Molor will see the folly of his treacherous ways (PB)

SEE:
yay mIr  	winning streak ("common way to say it") (n) (qep'a' 2018)
yay chav 	earn/achieve victory (idiom). E.g.

   yay chavlu' 'e' bajnISlu' 
   Victory must be earned. TKW

   noH QapmeH wo' Qaw'lu'chugh yay chavbe'lu' 
   "Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory." TKW

   qIbDaq Hoch Hovtay'mey bocharghchugh, yay bochav. 
   Victory shall be yours if you conquer the systems within the Galaxy. MKE
 
(qep'a' 2017):  ... for the sense of being close or not having wiggle room or leeway (If you were victorious, but just barely made it at the last minute or something like that, you could say {tey yay}.) 

TREK TRIVIA:
"Victory!  Victory!"  (TOS "Day of the Dove": Klingon cheer/salute to Kang after capturing the Enterprise engineering section)

"There is no victory without combat." (Kahless, quoted in ENT "Divergence")

“Victory is life.” (Jem’Hadar motto, DS9 “What We Leave Behind, Pt. 1” et al.)

PUN
"Yay!"

SEE ALSO:
Qapla' 		success (n)
Hegh 		death (n)
Doghjey 	unconditional surrender (n)

Qapbej 		achieve victory (v)
chargh 		conquer, vanquish, be victorious (v)
jey 		defeat (v)
tey  		be uncomfortable,  be close (v) (qep'a' 2017)

FAMOUS QUOTATIONS (suitable for translation)
" Victory.  Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."  (Winston Churchill to the House of Commons, 13 May 1940.)

You know, this is worth seeing in context:

     "I would say to the House as I said to those who have joined this government:  'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat'.  We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.  We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering.
     "You ask, what is our policy?  I will say:  It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us;  to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.  That is our policy.  You ask, what is our aim?  I can answer in one word:  Victory. Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."

[Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood,_toil,_tears_and_sweat ]

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons